Body size of the red fox Vulpes vulpes in Spain: The effect of agriculture

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 729-734

  Yom Tov, Yoram ^a   Yom Tov, Shlomith ^a   Barreiro, Josefina ^b   Blanco, Juan Carlos ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c Wolf Project   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animal husbandry; Bergmann's rule; Commensal animals; Food availability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BERGMANN RULE; BODY SIZE; CANID; COMMENSAL; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MORPHOLOGY; SKULL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 33947372478     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00761.x     Document Type: Article

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